President  |  MIKE SAVARD  |  Providence, RI

Mike Savard is a native Rhode Islander who started singing at age 9 with the Barrington Boys Choir of Rhode Island.  While he kept singing all along, he wasn’t exposed to Barbershop until 36 years later when he became a member of the Allentown-Bethlehem PA Chapter in 2012.  His career subsequently took him to Chicago and the Northbrook IL Chapter, where he served as Chapter Membership VP, and the ILL District VP of Chapter Support and Leadership Training.

When he returned to RI in 2018, he immediately stepped into the vacated Membership VP position in Providence (Narragansett Bay Chorus).  Mike is the baritone of Second Nature quartet, the 2022 Patriot Division Quartet Champions, and is also a member of the Providence Chapter/Narragansett Bay Chorus and the Southern New England Chapter.

Mike has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA and makes his living as a project management consultant.  He and his wife Mary (a Sweet Adeline chorus champion, and member of Voices United chorus) live in North Providence.

Bio: Dick Arscott is our new Executive Vice President for 2023. He has been on the Board of the Greater Boston Chapter as VP, Membership, and most recently as VP, Strategic Initiatives, a role which contributes to fundraising, membership, and marketing. He has been very active in the ongoing development of the Meredith Bay Barbershop Jamboree, a renewal of the Alton Bay Jamboree at which he first met The Boston Common in 1979.

While Dick started his barbershop “career” in 1978, by 1992, he had to take a “break” to raise his 5 children and get his MBA at Boston College.

Returning in 2015, he joined Vocal Revolution and has been in a handful of quartets since rejoining. In 2021, as the bass of “Wicked Sharp”, the quartet was the 2021 Patriot Division and Northeastern District Novice Quartet Champion. Notably, in 1981, as bass of the Norfolk County Music Company, the quartet also won those same awards, as well as coming in second in the District Contest that year in Lake Placid, NY, exactly 40 years prior to winning the trophies again in 2021.

As a career technologist, Dick has been in a number of key roles, including technology project manager for Raytheon, CIO for the Mass Legislature, and for the last nine years as a business development executive at Apple. Apple has been a generous supporter of barbershop through matching financial contributions as well as donations for the many volunteer hours that Dick contributes at both the chapter and district levels.

Mike Maino
2018

Immediate Past President |  MIKE MAINO  |  Providence, RI

RECIPIENT of the SOCIETY'S "LABAR AWARD"
(Given only seven times in BHS history, for excellence as a Master of Ceremonies)

Mike Maino joined SPEBSQSA at the age of 10, encouraged by his Dad, Al, bass of the very popular quartet, The Neptuners, and his Mom, Jeanne, one of the founders of Harmony Inc. By the time he was a senior in high school, he was President of the Providence chapter (Narragansett Bay Chorus), had held every chapter office, competed in a quartet at International, and already MC'd over 50 shows.

He is a former NED VP, and was a certified Stage Presence Judge. As an MC, his experiences include hundreds of shows, that have taken him from California to London, Seattle to Bermuda, and just about every major performance venue in between, including Carnegie Hall five times. He has been honored to MC many international contests for the Society, Harmony Inc., and Sweet Adelines Int., as well as being known as the voice of SAI's Coronet Club and was the only MC for the Bolton Landing Barbershop Festival. He has produced and MC'd the Block Island Barbershop Festival for over 40 years, and hosted the Society webcast for seven years.

As a bass singer, he has won four NED Quartet Championships, with The Four Scores (1970), The Great Chord Conspiracy (1976), Prime Alliance (1988), and Road Show (2001), in 1980 Grand Stand Vocal Band made the Top 20 at International. His Senior Quartets, RING!, X-Men, Mansion Vocal Band and Trade Secret, have all won the NED's Senior Championship, and represented the NED at International fourteen times. As a member of the Narragansett Bay Chorus (currently Program VP) he won the NED and competed at the International Contest 13 times. Between the chorus and quartets, he has been on the International competition stage over 45 times.

His voice is heard around the world on air, and the web, as an announcer for WCRI, 95.9, The Classical Station, where he is also the host of the long running Conducting Conversations, Company Break, and American a Cappella shows. He lives with his wife Gail Jencik (multi time SAI Chorus Champion and professional coach) in the historic Music Mansion, in Providence.

Glenn McElhoe
2019

Secretary |  GLENN McELHOE | Greater Boston, MA

Glenn McElhoe is the new District Secretary starting in 2020.  He has been a member of the Greater Boston, MA chapter (Vocal Revolution) since 2013, where he has been in VP of membership, outreach, and leader of the show team. Glenn sings lead in the quartet Have Voices Will Travel, performing around the greater Boston area to raise money for his chorus.

Outside of barbershop, Glenn works in downtown Boston developing cloud software for software company VMware.  He is also an assistant director of a community opera company, the North Cambridge Family Opera, putting on family-performed and family-friendly performances each year.

Treasurer | JOHN ENGLANDER  | Nashua, NH

2022 District Barbershopper of the Year, brings over 16 years of leadership to the Nashua Chapter, from Treasurer to President. His financial expertise as Controller at Northeast Products translates seamlessly to his 7 years as NED Treasurer. John's unwavering dedication and passion for barbershop harmony make him an invaluable asset to the Board.

• Award-winning singer & dedicated leader

• 16+ years of chapter leadership experience

• Financial expertise (controller & treasurer roles)

• Passionate about barbershop

VP - Chapter Support  | KATIE ROSE | Southern New England, MA

The only thing Katie Rose has been involved with longer than group facilitation is music! She grew up singing in church choir and playing trombone and currently sings with Southern New England Chapter (Voices United) (BHS) and New England Voices in Harmony (HI). She is the president of the BHS Southern New England Chapter and is excited to come into the role of VP of Chapter Support.

Outside of music, Katie has worked with and taught diverse groups spanning ages 5-85, across students and executives, and from the middle of the woods to traditional classrooms, guiding them to create their own meaningful experiences and connections.

Katie currently makes her living in project management and enjoys when her dog, Duke, sings along while she's trying to practice barbershop!

VP - Contests & Judging |  ALAN LAMSON  | Manchester, CT

Alan Lamson, a 48 year resident of Manchester, CT, is a 39-year member of the Barbershop Harmony Society and is a member of the Manchester, CT (Silk City Chorus) and Alexandria, VA (Alexandria Harmonizers) chapters. He is a twice past president of the Manchester chapter, was elected Barbershopper of the Year for the chapter twice, and Barbershopper of the Decade (1990s) for the chapter. He is a baritone in the chorus, the baritone of the 2005, 2006, and 2009 Yankee Division Senior Quartet Champions, Senior Momentum, and currently baritone of I Don’t Know Why, a 2016 District Quartet Contest qualifier.

He was president of the Barbershop Harmony Society’s Northeastern District in 2003-2004 and, before that, served as its Executive Vice-president and Vice-president - Chapter Support and Leadership Training. He is the current Vice-president Contest & Judging elect. He was the 1999 Northeastern District Barbershopper of the Year. Alan has served as a Dean and Chapter President instructor in the Society’s Chapter Officer Training School and Leadership Academy programs, selected as the Society’s Outstanding COTS Coordinator in 1998, is a Contest Administrator in the Society’s contest and judging program, has served as staff to the Northeastern District’s Harmony Explosion Camp.

Alan served on the Society’s International Board of Directors for eight years - serving as Society President from 2011-2012. He is chairman of the Society Nominating Committee. In 2016 he was selected to be a member of the Society’s Leadership Operations Planning Team. He was also Interim CEO for the Society in 2012. Alan is a member of NEWCANEWENG, the Northeastern District’s honorary association.

He still resides in Manchester with his wife, Janet. They have two sons and five grandchildren. Alan recently retired from FLB Architecture & Planning, Inc. in East Hartford, CT.
 

VP – Events |  ROBERT BRADLEY  |  Danbury, CT

Bob first sang in a barbershop double-quartet in the early 1960's in high school.

He joined the Danbury, CT chapter (Mad Hatter Chorus) in 1993 and eventually served as the annual show chairman and the Chapter VP of Program and Music. In 1996 Bob was elected Chapter President and he held this position until 2009.

Bob soon after volunteered as the District’s Yankee Division Manager and in 2010 he joined the Events Team after chairing the Yankee and Mountain Contest and Convention in Danbury. Bob continued as Yankee Division Manager and became the District VP of Leadership and Chapter Support.  Soon after that, Bob became the District VP of Events and held all three positions at the same time! Multi-talented guy!

Awarded in the Fall of 2019, Bob was one of the three 2018 NED Barbershopper of Distinction recipients. He serves currently the Vice President of Events for NED.
 

Amanda Pitts has been a barbershopper for most of her life. She joined the Coastline Show Chorus (SAI) in 2003 as a nine-year-old and has been singing ever since. Amanda is the lead of the SAI Rising Star champion quartet, Adrenaline, and the foursome has traveled all over the country as the teaching quartet for youth barbershop camps - including right here in the NED at HXNE in 2019.

Amanda is also the lead of the newly-formed NED mixed quartet Queens Gambit, and is a founding member of Voices United Mixed Chorus where she's a lead section leader and a member of the BOD.

When not singing, Amanda works as a television news reporter for the CBS affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island.

VP - Youth Harmony | Andrew Lujan | Southern New England (RI)

Andrew Lujan serves as the VP of Youth in Harmony within the NED. Andrew started singing barbershop as a young student, and hopes to positively impact the lives of young singers through the barbershop art form.

Having participated in various YiH opportunities through his time as a barbershopper, Andrew understands the power of barbershop singing to cultivate community and relationships.

Additionally, he enjoys singing with his fianceè in Voices United, singing with his quartet, Wildfire, and is a certified judge (Singing) within the Barbershop Harmony Society.